Ford truck crash 1.7 billion

Lawyers blamed dangerously defective roofs on Ford pickup trucks in a couple's death.

said in “I used to buy Ford trucks,” Butler said on Sunday. Melvin and Voncile Hill were killed in April 2014 in the rollover wreck of their 2002 Ford F-250.

Ford faces punitive damages over fatal rollover of F-250 pickup truck, says the jury verdict isn't supported by evidence.

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Ford Motor Co. will appeal the $1.7 billion verdict against it that was delivered last week. The case stemmed from a pickup truck crash that killed a ...

said in his closing remarks. Their children, Kim and Adam Hill, were the plaintiffs in the "I used to buy Ford trucks," Butler said Sunday. The damn thing is useless in a wreck. Melvin and Voncile Hill were riding in their 2002 Ford F-250 in April 2014 when they died in a rollover wreck. Melvin and Voncile Hill were riding in their 2002 Ford F-250 in April 2014 when they died in a rollover wreck

Georgia couple Melvin and Voncile Hill were killed in April of 2014 when their 2002 Ford F-250 truck rolled over. The couple's children, Kim and Adam Hill, ...

Meanwhile, Butler himself appeared to be shocked by all the evidence in the case: “I used to buy Ford trucks. You might as well drive a convertible.” Georgia couple Melvin and Voncile Hill were killed in April of 2014 when their 2002 Ford F-250 truck rolled over. “While our sympathies go out to the Hill family, we do not believe the verdict is supported by the evidence, and we plan to appeal,” said the carmaker in a statement to The Associated Press this past weekend. “An award of punitive damages to hopefully warn people riding around in the millions of those trucks Ford sold was the reason the Hill family insisted on a verdict,” said Butler, as quoted by AP. Lawyers for the plaintiffs, as part of Butler Prather LLP, submitted evidence of nearly 80 similar rollover incidents that showed Ford trucks with their roofs crushed - resulting in serious injuries and even loss of lives, as reported by

The family of an elderly couple killed when the roof of their F-250 pickup collapsed during a rollover accident in 2014 has been awarded a massive $1.7 ...

The only way the plaintiffs would get the full amount of punitive damages is if there is a settlement reached between the two sides, Butler said. "An award of punitive damages to hopefully warn people riding around in the millions of those trucks Ford sold was the reason the Hill family insisted on a verdict." Ford would not comment on Butler's statement that the older F-150's and F-250's have similar roofs at danger of collapse. He said Ford's engineers had already designed a safer roof, but the automaker did not move immediately to install it on the trucks. The $1.7 billion in additional damages was awarded by a jury on Friday. Perhaps even more troubling is that the best-selling F-150 pickups made before Model Year 2009 have a very similar roof design, Butler said.

Lawyers for the plaintiffs had submitted evidence of nearly 80 similar rollover wrecks that involved truck roofs being crushed that injured or killed ...

[Gwinnett County](/topic/gwinnett-county), just northeast of Atlanta, returned the verdict late last week in the years long civil case involving what the plaintiffs' lawyers called dangerously defective roofs on Ford pickup trucks, lawyer James Butler Jr. plans to appeal a USD 1.7 billion verdict against the automaker after a pickup truck crash that claimed the lives of a Georgia couple, a company representative has said. [Ford](/topic/ford)Motor Co.